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The Cyrillic alphabet was developed by Greek monks trying to convert the Slavic tribes to Christianity. They ended up developing a language called Old Church Slavonic, using an obscure alphabet they now call Glagolitic for sounds present in Slavic languages that are absent in Greek, and the Greek alphabet as basis. The alphabet of Old Church Slavonic was eventually adopted by the Bulgarians as the Cyrillic alphabet, with other Slavic countries following later on, and adding their own little changes to accommodate their languages.

So yeah, Cyrillic has some similarities with the Greek alphabet, but it is not really intelligible to Greeks, and those who know languages based in Cyrillic can't really do anything with Greek. And like the Latin script, Cyrillic also had differences between languages. For example, Ukrainian and Belorussian have a letter that looks like the English letter "i," which is used to make the long "e" sound (as in "eel"), whereas Russian doesn't have a letter like that, instead using и (which is a letter that also exists in Ukrainian, but makes a different sound, and does not exist in Belorussian at all).

When the Soviet Union was dominant, it established Russian as a language of "inter-ethnic communication," on-top of its several attempts of Russification. So Russian is known throughout most of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, even if a different language is recognized as the "official" one -- some countries continue to recognize Russian as a second official language. Most Slavic languages have a fairly highly degree of mutual intelligibility, though, and when Slavs learn other languages, they almost never learn other Slavic languages. A Ukrainian can understand a Pole speaking slowly with very little trouble (thoug he'd have a lot of trouble trying to read it, as Polish uses the Latin script), a Russian could figure out what a Ukrainian is saying fairly easily, and would have even less trouble understanding Belorussian. It gets a bit harder for an East Slav (Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian) to understand a Southern Slav (Bulgarian, Croatian, etc.), but within their groups all the languages have very high degrees of mutual intelligibility. I speak Russian and Ukrainian, and once heard a woman in a store speaking in Croatian quickly, and it sounded close enough to Russian that I offered to help her in Russian. She didn't understand me though, and it turned out I couldn't understand her either, despite the fact that when she spoke it sounded really familiar to my ears.

Yeah, old Russian from like, World War I, looks all sorts of funky to me because it has a bunch of obsolete letters that are no longer taught or used in Russian. 'ï' is still used in Ukrainian, though it seems kind of redundant with й also being use, the two sounds being quite similar.

When something is derived or based on something else, you don't call it that previous thing, do you? No, of course not - after all, the implication of being derived from something else is that you're dealing with a new thing. Therefore, even if Cyrillic is based on Greek or even incorporated Greek lettering, that doesn't make it what the Greeks use.

To try and clarify for you Cyrillic is somewhat based on the Greek alphabet, but it also uses letters that have no Greek origin. Notagtipsy is correct in that Cyrillic is not the same as the Greek alphabet, but Cyrillic was derived from the Greek alphabet. It is not actually half Greek and half Latin, I think Soviyet just meant that it kind of looks that way. I don't think the Cyrillic alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet at all, but it sometimes happens to sound/look similar. I would say if you know the Greek and Latin alphabets you could probably sound out about 80% of Cyrillic writing.

well it would have been clever, if he had done it right... unfortunately the s should have been c, and the u should have been y. the e is trickier, because there are two letters that are equivalent to e... but generally that's not the preferred one for straight transliteration.

My friend and I learned the Cyrillic alphabet when we were in high school to write secret messages to each other. Then we mixed it with the Greek alphabet. And the words were a mix of French, English, Ancient Greek and Spanish. It was quite hard to decipher, but it worked well.

My buddy and I speak Italian, Swedish, and Ukrainian. In highschool we would pass notes written in Cyrillic using a mixture of Italian Swedish and ukie. Completely indecipherable. Made cheating on tests and answer sharing super easy.

Yo this is Meth, also known as methodius, breakin' it down with hard sounds on the podiums. My name is Kirill, I am the real deal, creating an alphabet with mad skill, your girl wants my number cuz I'm just that ill, and I spill rhymes with meth, cyrillic alphabet boy we fresh to death.